Elia Palange, graduated cum laude in Physics in 1976 at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome – Italy, is currently Associated Professor of Physics and Nanophotonics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of L’Aquila. He was visiting scientist at the Laboratoire d’Optique Quantique - Palaiseau - France (1981-1983), at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre - Yorktown Heights (NY) – USA (1987-1989) and visiting professor at the Departamento de Eletrònica Quàntica of the Instituto de Fisica of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Brazil (1984-1985, 1992-1994). During his scientific activities he carried out research on laser physics, nonlinear optics and spectroscopy and optical properties of nanometer sized semiconductor heterostructures and organic/inorganic metamaterial compounds. He is currently the Supervisor of the Optics and Photonics Laboratory of the Electrical and Information Engineering Department. The Laboratory is developing research activities on novel photonics multifunctional devices based on linear and nonlinear extreme metamaterials, electro-activation of spatial solitons in photorefractive crystals, the use of Si and Ge nanowires for the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic nanodevices and the synthesis and characterization of the physical and structural properties of highly magnetic FePt nanoparticles. He is co-author of 1more than 100 scientific papers on international journals, 4 European patents and 1 USA patent.

36.E. Palange, and G. Salvetti, "Intrapulse Frequency Control in Long Pulse Single-mode High Power CO2Lasers by means of Reflective High Finesse Interferometer", International Conference CLEO, Anaheim June 1990.

42.G. Giuliani, E. Palange and G. Salvetti, "Tunability over the Entire Gain Line of Single-Mode, Large Band Lasers Employing High Finesse Grating Interferometers", International Conference CLEO, San Francisco (USA) May 1986.